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...York’s landmark Chelsea Hotel in mid-October, and is planning another in early December for its premier issue, set to come out in New York in early February.Still three months removed from that publication date, Matthews and company have already assembled about three-quarters of the content for the first issue and are preparing for their second.The idea for the magazine surfaced nearly two years ago, when Matthews was a summer intern in public relations at Bravo Television, working primarily on “Project Runway,” a reality competition show for fashion designers.Having grown...
...provocative “The Dreamers”—enchants Craig and the audience with her performance.Martin Campbell, who first came to the franchise when he directed “Goldeneye” in 1995, goes back to basics in style as well as content. “Goldeneye” was by far the most entertaining of the Brosnan Bonds and the film’s producers were right to bring him back.The action, as in the rest of the series, delivers the pulse-pounding that audiences will be expecting, including a gripping chase sequence through...
...Tuesday, however, this forward-thinking model was endangered. The first regular Faculty meeting to discuss the October general education report was contentious and left no clear decision in sight. Some professors opposed the content-based approach of the report, wishing rather for a methodological emphasis that would introduce students to the tools of various disciplines. Beren Professor of Economics N. Gregory Mankiw, for one, was in this camp. He raised the possibility, as reported in yesterday’s Crimson, of distribution requirements rather than a unified, interdisciplinary approach...
...basically idiots.’” The promulgation of knowledge, Hoffmann seemed to say, must extend beyond mere methodology if it is to help students to accomodate the real challenges they will face beyond college. Most of us are not in the running to become scholars content in understanding one specialized area of the world, as Mankiw’s ideas seem to suggest. Rather, most of us wish to grapple with the big issues in an integrated manner...
...editing error, the headline of the Nov. 15 news article, "Vitamins Not Vital for Women," did not reflect the content of the story. The study's lead researcher, Brigham Professor of Women's Health Jo Ann E. Manson, was quoted in the article cautioning that her findings -- which cast some doubt on the link between vitamin intake and cardiovascular health in women -- "warrant further study, but we're cautioning that they could be due to chance." As the article explained, Manson's study did show that intake of vitamins C and E did lead to fewer strokes for women...